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On May 23, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14301, “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the DOE,” which instructed the Department of Energy to create a Reactor Pilot Program (RPP)—a new system in which companies could pursue DOE authorization to build and test their first-of-a-kind nuclear technologies. EO 14301 set an ambitious goal for that program: three reactors achieving criticality by July 4, 2026.
C. S. Caldwell, D. A. Spragg
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 62 | Number 2 | February 1977 | Pages 270-277
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A26962
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Cubic and bicubic piecewise polynomial splines are used to represent the boundaries between phases and the shapes of the phase surfaces in p(u, v), T(u, v), and v(p, h) diagrams. Good accuracy in the region of interest for pressurized water reactor applications is achieved at reasonable cost Furthermore, the continuity of the second derivatives of this method of interpolation results in smoother numerical behavior than does linear interpolation when implemented in computer programs solving differential equations.